From rgarcia@uni-hamburg.de Sun Dec 18 22:30:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uni-hamburg!rgarcia From: rgarcia@uni-hamburg.de (Renata García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Dec18.223007.3524@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 22:30:07 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Renata García *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From ggirard@utexas.edu Mon Dec 19 08:40:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!ggirard From: ggirard@utexas.edu (Göran Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Dec19.084007.2165@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 08:40:07 GMT References: <1994Dec18.223007.3524@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec18.223007.3524@uni-hamburg.de>, rgarcia@uni-hamburg.de (Renata García) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. Marcus in Mexico was a rock musician. Marcus in Korea was an architect. Marcus in Japan was a poet. Who was Marcus in the US? -- Göran Girard | ggirard@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: BD50 3251 5640 EBD3 "Keep the channels open." From nramirez@cmu.edu Wed Dec 21 10:18:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!nramirez From: nramirez@cmu.edu (Nadine Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Dec21.101807.4111@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 10:18:07 GMT References: <1994Dec18.223007.3524@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec18.223007.3524@uni-hamburg.de>, rgarcia@uni-hamburg.de (Renata García) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- === Nadine Ramírez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From gsanchez@clari.net Fri Dec 23 12:11:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!gsanchez From: gsanchez@clari.net (Göran Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Dec23.121107.1610@clari.net> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 12:11:07 GMT References: <1994Dec18.223007.3524@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Dec18.223007.3524@uni-hamburg.de>, rgarcia@uni-hamburg.de (Renata García) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Göran Sánchez Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From toliveira@hanse.de Fri Dec 23 19:53:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!toliveira From: toliveira@hanse.de (Tomas Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Dec23.195307.7007@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 19:53:07 GMT References: <1994Dec18.223007.3524@uni-hamburg.de> <1994Dec23.121107.1610@clari.net> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Dec23.121107.1610@clari.net>, gsanchez@clari.net (Göran Sánchez) writes: > Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Tomas Oliveira *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0